Along the dead land there was plenty of undead skeletons and other monstrous creatures in their way, however all was pretty easy compared to what they were used to. It was not their power they were bothered about but rather the amount. It seemed there was no end to them and they did not get any progress at all, until someone suggested something great. "I think i got it, where there are more must be the right direction toward the witch. She would obviously want us to stay away." Tarnyang pointed out. The others seemed more surprised that tarnyang of all people actually said something logical. "What? I can be smart too!"
Everyone laughed at the situation but quickly got back to the ever larger growing groups of monsters, following what tarnyang had said it seemed they actually were getting some progress and eventually found a deeper part of the dead lands with stronger monsters. This continued on for a good while as they reached deeper levels until they hit on a wall, a gigantic one at that. It looked like there was no way around or over it, their only chance was straight through it. But they merely managed to dent it of a while of attacking it.

It was then everyone got caught off guard by maria who basically was shot into the wall and kicking straight through it, nobody had time to question it as right behind the wall was none other than the minions they had fought before, but they were all being punished for having so easily given up on the curses. Not far behind them all were a dark and really misshapen looking castle, no doubt that she would be in there. Though maria were almost already at the gates of it, everyone else hurried after as they ignored the minions. Once they got up there the doors were already kicked down and maria was stuck in one of the dark chandeliers. "It seems i have to take care of you all by myself since my minions are idiots that can't do a single task as asked, not that it matters it will be fun to see your faces when i destroy all of you!" A voice was heard from the dark end of the gigantic room, it lit up slowly revealing a woman with long dark violet hair put up in a ponytail and glowing pink eyes. She wore a purple pointy dress with red markings and had horns. At first glance she looked alot like annelotte but as she stood up and got closer that was definitely not the case.

Everyone got their guard up about to attack her but was thrown to the side of the room as the woman motioned her hand similarly, Sigui quickly got back on her feet and did a holy pose which gave protection to everyone else of all dark magic so she could not do something like it again. "Oh what a bother, if i cant use my magic then i guess i have no choice but to just do this." The witch threw a sceptre across the room and straight toward sigui, however just before it hit her lunaluna quickly caught sigui with her tentacles and pulled her out of the way. It got her out of the protection pose but mirim and ymir had already gotten up to the witch from out of view and was planning on catching her off guard from behind, to no avail as while she was quick to use her magic again sending a ball of fire against the group, the two behind was slapped back by an unusually strong pointy tail.

Elina extended her sword and cut the flames apart and it was sent in two pieces straight past them and into the wall denting it badly, then quickly after rushing her only to again be thrown out of the way. The fight went on for a while with everyone trying to keep the witch's attention while yuit had taken cover and was trying to put the puzzle pieces together of how to defeat the witch, but the queen had not done anything at all. Nobody had realised that she was focused on something else entirely, she had not even been looking the way of the fight at all, she was all the way over at the other end of the hall staring at a dark part of the room. She was however in full control, but something that nobody else had caught yet was in that darkness. It was Aldra and Annelotte, but aldra was tied up, it seemed annelotte was just observing at the moment amusingly over everything. Claudette had hit a low, her body was still worn out entirely from the battle at the day before. She even looked and sounded weak as she walked closer up to annelotte. "Why?"

Annelotte turned towards her and chuckled. "Why what now QUEEN? Are you not supposed to be wanting my head or something?" Claudette stopped and looked over at the others. "I was cursed, i had no wishes of fighting anyone, creating a war or being tyrannical, i wished to rule fair and kindly over my people. But most of all i-" Claudette stopped to think, what was she going to say? She was not even quite sure also why was she telling this to her enemy? "What is it. Cat got your tongue or something?" Claudette was caught off guard as Annelotte threw her lance at her though just barely missing her on purpose. "Its Sir Alphonse is it not?" Claudette had fallen at her throw and looked up at her, both scared and confused as to how she knew of him. Annelotte was about to speak again but they both got interrupted by the others, as they finally realised what was going on out of sight and some rushed to claudette's help.

Aldra still cursed was watching everything going on because she was tied up not far from where annelotte was at, Ymir and Eilin had joined up with yuit that had finally gotten a somewhat organised plan to defeat the witch. They had to wait for the last of the old warriors to join them though so until then, they were forced to just be able to hold out and not waste too much power. "We will be needing something to keep them distracted, but we can not afford to just sacrifice one of our own to do such a thing…" Eilin tried to explain to Yuit. But as they were discussing it Ymir looked around for an opportunity and saw Maria struggling to get out of being tangled in the chandelier. "Girls, i got an idea." She pointed to Maria and the other two knew exactly what she was thinking of, maria being so full of adrenaline she had been extremely well rested from the curse unlike the others and as a result she could go a great while against the witch and annelotte both without breaking a sweat even if she would not be able to make much of a fight, it would be enough to keep them back for probably even longer than they would need.